Chapter 309 Promising Huahua

The educated youth team has tractors and ox-horse harnesses this year, and its working methods are very different from last year, mainly in the transportation of skids.

Originally, the wood was manually lifted, stacked and then lowered down the mountain through the ice ditch.

This is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and extremely dangerous. Production accidents may occur if you are not careful.

Nowadays, mechanical skidding and ox-horse skidding are used, which have high work efficiency, fast operation speed, save manpower, and are safer.

Sheng Xiping held a meeting with several key members and divided the sixty or so people from the educated youth team into several groups.

The logging team is led by Wang Jianshe, Guo Yongping, and Yu Shuaijun, who are led by chain saw assistants, and specialize in felling trees.

Later, Zhang Zhijun and Pan Fusheng led a group of people to form a special group to break branches with axes.

Followed closely by the lumber-making team, sawing lumber with a curved handle, trying to make long lumber and not short lumber.

After building materials, there is the gathering of materials. Chen Weiguo and Sheng Xiping took turns driving tractors and sledges at the large alkali field.

When oxen and horses are harnessed to gather materials, people walk on the left side of the oxen and horse harnesses, which is both safe and can help the cattle and horses sit on the slope.

After the sledge stops at the mountain site, the people from the timber building team will roll the bulk of the wood (long wood) that needs to be gathered onto the sledge and fix it.

Then the tenants go to the market and go down the mountain to Lengchang to unload, and then the people from the Guileng group return to Lengchang.

Tractor skidding is to lock the logs on the index frame with a lock belt and drag them on the ground.

This method can drag many logs at one time, and the logs will form a fan-face shape on the ground, so it is also called the fan-face method.

However, this method is extremely damaging to seedlings, saplings, and reserved trees in the working area, so it is more suitable for clear-cutting.

For those operations areas where both harvesting and cultivation are combined, the tractors are required not to leave the skidding road. When winching, they must be pulled out individually. After the load is sufficient, the tractors must be winched together on the loading plate and transported to the loading yard.

The chain saw operators and tractor operators in the educated youth team are all novices who have just received training and certificates this year.

At first, the factory was worried and specially arranged for the production director and safety personnel to come to the scene to watch.

Although Sheng Xiping and others are novices, their work is no worse than that of veterans.

Young people have a lot of strength, and they can work not only steadily but also quickly.

The production director followed for four or five days and found that the educated youth team worked very quickly and efficiently, so he immediately arranged for people from other work teams to come over and study.

Promote the working procedures and methods of the educated youth team among several work teams in the forest farm.

Working in the mountains is boring, and the only time for relaxation is when everyone gathers in the cafeteria after dinner every night to chat about the mountains.

In the blink of an eye, the work team has been working on the mountain for almost two months. It has snowed several times and the temperature is getting lower and lower.

In the mountain forests where temperatures are 30 to 40 degrees below zero, forestry workers wear large cotton-padded jackets and cotton trousers, fur hats, felt socks and large cotton shoes.

Braving the wind and snow, shouting loud and clear chants to cut down the big trees, they were then transported out of the mountains and transported to various places to support national construction.

The workers worked hard on the mountain, and the families of the workers were worried about their husbands and children at home, looking forward to their husbands and children coming down safely every day.

"Mom, the final exam is over. Students will have a holiday today. We may have to wait for another seven or eight days.

Didn't you say you want to pack a sticky fire spoon? I quickly soaked the rice and just soaked it for a few days before grinding it. I guess I was on vacation too.

Yunfang Yunfei and I worked together, and my mother and I were able to finish it in one day. "

On the afternoon of December 25th, when the final exam of primary school was over, Zhou Qinglan, with a big belly and one hand on her waist, opened the door and entered the room, and said to Zhang Shuzhen.

Liu Yujiang had previously sent a lot of glutinous rice balls, sticky sorghum and the like to the Sheng family, and Zhang Shuzhen said that she would keep the bags of glutinous rice balls and eat them with fire spoons.

This sticky fire spoon is made of various sticky grains, such as rhubarb rice, sticky corn, sticky sorghum, sticky millet, etc., soaked in water for three to five days, and then sent to the mill for water grinding.

Push it back and put the sticky noodles into the noodle bag to control the water. After controlling the water to a certain extent, pour the sticky noodles out into a basin and knead them hard until they are elastic, soft and not sticky to your hands.

Then use a small ball of sticky dough, wrap it with adzuki bean filling cooked with saccharin, and press it flat.

Put the spatula in the pot, heat the pot dry, and when the spatula is hot, place the hot spoon on the spatula to cook it.

This work is very tedious and cannot be done by one person.

There was no school holiday before, and Zhou Qinglan, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei didn't have time, so Zhang Shuzhen kept talking about it and never made rice, just thinking about waiting until the school holiday.

The school exams were finally over today. Zhou Qinglan hurriedly mentioned it to her mother-in-law as soon as she entered the door.

"Just in time, before I give birth, quickly wrap up the fire-sticking spoon.

Otherwise, after I give birth to a child, I will have to take care of my confinement and take care of the fire spoon, which will be very busy. "

Zhou Qinglan untied her scarf as she spoke. It was extremely cold at the end of December, so she had to cover herself tightly when going out.

"It's soaked. I soaked the rice yesterday."

As soon as Zhang Shuzhen saw her daughter-in-law come in, she quickly came forward with a clean towel and wiped the snow off her body.

It's snowing again outside, the snow is quite heavy. During the walk from school to home, a thin layer of snow fell on Zhou Qinglan's head and shoulders.

"How are you feeling today? Does your stomach hurt? Do you feel any tightness in your stomach?"

There are only about ten days left before the due date. Recently, Zhang Shuzhen has been asking every day, fearing that her daughter-in-law is inexperienced with her first child, what if something goes wrong.

"Mom, I'm fine. I'm fine everywhere. I don't feel a stomachache at all. I'm just a little tired anyway, it's nothing."

Zhou Qinglan smiled and shook her head. She was indeed pregnant well. Apart from the torture in the early stages of pregnancy and the constant vomiting, the child had no other problems.

Since her pregnancy, Zhou Qinglan has never asked for leave due to discomfort.

Of course, most people in this era were pretty. Many women went to work in the fields when they were pregnant, and some even gave birth to their children directly on the fields.

Zhou Qinglan's job as a teacher is relatively easy compared to working in the fields.

After all, she doesn’t stand and give lectures all day long. With her size, even if she sits down, no one will say anything.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, as long as you and the child are safe."

After hearing her daughter-in-law say it was okay, Zhang Shuzhen finally felt relieved.

The son is working in the mountains, and the daughter-in-law is pregnant and has a big belly. She goes to school in the wind and snow to teach her child.

Those naughty kids are so naughty. If Zhang Shuzhen fails to take good care of her daughter-in-law, how can she explain to her son if her daughter-in-law has some troubles?

"Sit down and rest, I tell you, since the exam is over, you might as well ask for leave and go home.

It's cold outside now and the roads are slippery. I'm worried when you go to school every day.

It's only been a few days. If you need to take leave, you can take leave. The school can't say anything.

If you really say anything, I'll go find your principal. "Zhang Shuzhen helped her daughter-in-law sit on the edge of the kang while chanting.

"After these two days, I have finished marking the children's papers and posted the results.

After waiting for the children to return to school and hear their results, I asked for leave from the school and went home to rest. "

Zhou Qinglan knew that her mother-in-law was doing it for her own good, so she didn't object. She is already this size, and it is indeed tiring to go to school every day.

Zhou Qinglan was inconvenient, so the children returned to class after their exams. She told them the time to return to school to listen to their results and receive their homework, and then she went home.

The students, led by Sheng Xitai, cleaned the classroom, dismantled the stove and returned it to the warehouse. After everything was packed up, they locked the door and went home.

Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng went home first, and Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei, and Sheng Xikang also entered the house one after another.

Dinner was already prepared, and the two girls quickly started to pack it up.

Just as everyone here was about to sit down to eat, Huahua, who had been sleeping all day in the outer room, woke up and went to open the door with a cry.

Now Huahua can no longer be called a little brat. At six or seven months old, Huahua's size can already match the size of Erlangshen.

That big head and big claws are thanks to the fact that he was raised by his family. If he saw such a guy in the wild, he would be scared to wet his pants.

After Sheng Xiping went up the mountain, the dogs at home were taken away by Liu Yujiang and his brothers.

In the winter, when the Liu brothers had nothing to do, they took their dogs up the mountain, hunted prey and other things, and sent some to the Sheng family.

Sheng Xiping was not at home, and no one took Huahua out to hunt, so this guy went out by himself.

Huahua doesn't go too far, hunting within a radius of no more than fifty miles around the forest farm.

At the beginning, I could catch badgers, raccoons, hares and other small animals.

In recent days, Huahua has been able to catch roe deer, half-grown deer, small yellow-haired deer and so on.

Even though it is not fully grown yet, it is able to carry prey about the same size back home. This is the ability of the king of beasts.

Generally speaking, tigers will stop hunting for two or three days after eating a full meal.

But tigers in the wild will patrol their own territory, so they rarely go back to their dens to lie down.

The same goes for Huahua. He goes out almost every night. Regardless of whether he catches prey or not, he will wander around outside for a long time. He won't come back until dawn.

So as soon as there was any movement in the outhouse, the Sheng family knew that Huahua was going out to hunt again.

"Lao Liu, go open the door and let Huahua out."

In fact, the door of the house was not locked. With Huahua's ability, he was able to open it with a strong pounce.

But this guy didn't do it. Every time he went out, he had to make some noise, and someone had to open the door for him.

Sheng Xitai quickly put on his shoes and went to the ground to open the door for Huahua in the outhouse.

"Huahua, be careful when you go out. Don't mess with wolves or jackals, and don't go too far."

Sheng Xitai said as he opened the door.

Huahua purred at Sheng Xitai, rubbed her head against Sheng Xitai, then stepped out of the house, jumped out from the garden stick.

Sheng Xitai hurried out of the door and stared at Huahua's shadow.

I felt relieved when I saw that this guy had gone far away after just a few ups and downs. His shadow disappeared in an instant, and there was nothing unusual around him.

Before going up the mountain, his eldest brother told Huahua that whenever Huahua goes out, she must check with someone, lest someone look at Huahua jealously and secretly ambush the little tiger.

Sheng Xitai stood outside for a while and didn't hear any unusual noise. Then he felt relieved and turned back to the house to eat.

The elementary school exams were over, but the middle school exams were not yet finished. After dinner, Zhou Qinglan watched Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei review their homework.

It wasn't until the power went out in the forest farm that everyone went back to their houses to sleep.

Zhou Qinglan's belly is already very big. She is approaching her due date and may give birth at any time.

So Zhang Shuzhen went to the West Room to accompany her daughter-in-law in the evening. If there was any movement, she could get up at any time to help.

The security of the forest farm is good. Even though the men from each family are working on the mountain, the people from the security department will patrol and check the posts at fixed times, so it is quite peaceful at night.

The Sheng family's big dogs are not at home, and Zhaocai and Wangfu are half-grown, so they can look after the house and the home.

Nothing happened at night. Everyone slept until about five o'clock in the morning, when they heard something knocking on the door. Needless to say, it must have been Huahua coming back.

Zhang Shuzhen quickly put on her cotton trousers and jacket, carefully walked out of the west room, went to the outer room and opened the broken curtain hanging in the door, then pulled the latch on the door and pushed the door open.

"Oh my god, Huahua, you caught a pig and brought it back?"

The nights before and after the winter solstice are very long, and at five o'clock in the morning it's just dawn outside.

Against the backdrop of the white snow, Zhang Shuzhen vaguely saw a dark thing on the ground, which looked bigger than Huahua.

When he lowered his head and took a closer look, he saw that it was a pig, a wild boar weighing about a hundred pounds.

When Huahua saw Zhang Shuzhen, she stepped forward and rubbed her big head against Zhang Shuzhen's legs, purring while rubbing her.

Zhang Shuzhen raised her hand and touched Huahua's belly. It looked like she was full.

So Zhang Shuzhen rubbed Huahua's head with great affection, stepped aside to let Huahua enter the house, and then bent down to drag the pig outside into the house.

Huahua entered the house and lay down in her nest to sleep. Zhang Shuzhen looked at the time and simply stopped sleeping. She got dressed, went out to collect firewood and came back to make a fire for cooking.

Breakfast is simple. One pot is used to cook small rice porridge, and another pot is filled with water, put the pot curtain, add dry food and last night's leftovers, and cut some pickles, and it's enough.

After the ballast porridge is boiled, add some alkaline noodles, stir it with a spoon, and then stagger the lid of the pot to leave a gap.

After that, Zhang Shuzhen freed up her hands and began to clean up the pig on the ground.

In normal days, Sheng Xiping takes care of things, and Zhang Shuzhen is not needed.

Now that all three of the family's laborers are on the mountain and Sheng Xikang is still sleeping in the house, Zhang Shuzhen can only do it herself.

There was a bloody hole in Huang Maozi's throat, and one could tell at a glance that it was bitten by Huahua's teeth.

The belly of the wild boar had been ripped open, all internal organs were gone, and a lot of the meat under the belly had been torn into pieces.

Zhang Shuzhen took a knife and cut off all the parts that Huahua had bitten and put them aside for the purpose of attracting wealth and prosperity.

The rest was peeled off the skin, picked out the bones, chopped into pieces, taken out and frozen.

You have to keep these. If Huahua goes out one day without harvesting and gets hungry, take it back and melt it and feed it.

In fact, since Sheng Xiping left, Huahua went out hunting two or three times to no avail, and came back to surround Zhang Shuzhen for food.

The rest of the time, even if this guy doesn't take him back, he can still get away with it.

Zhang Shuzhen planned to keep the pig's trotters and pig's head. When Zhou Qinglan gave birth to her baby, she would prepare them for her to eat, so she also took them to the warehouse and froze them.

After cleaning up these things, I just called the children to get up, wash up, and pack up for dinner.

After breakfast, Sheng Xikang, Sheng Yunfang, and Sheng Yunfei were not on vacation yet and had to continue going to school.

As for Zhou Qinglan, she still had to go to school to grade papers and record students' scores.

So Zhang Shuzhen told her two girls to support Zhou Qinglan on the road and not to slip or fall.

"Don't be in a hurry to come back after you finish marking the papers. I'll pick you up when the fourth and fifth boys get off from school at noon, and you guys can come back together."

Before leaving, Zhang Shuzhen also told Zhou Qinglan to be careful.

Zhou Qinglan and three others responded at the same time and then left. There are only three Zhang Shuzhen, Sheng Xitai and Chen left in the family.

"You're not allowed to go out and run wild today. You're staying at home to help me pick the beans. I'll make the stuffing later and we'll eat it with a hot spoon."

As soon as he heard that there was something delicious, Sheng Xitai immediately opened his eyes and nodded repeatedly. "Mom, let's not go out and work at home."

There have been floods or earthquakes all over the country recently, so everyone needs to pay attention to safety.